ARMISTICE DAY

Northern Advocate, 12 November 1923, Page 5

ARMISTICE DAY

THE PREACHING OF PEACE. TBOM PLATFORM AND FULPII I. WAR'S ACCURSEDNESS. i ' J (Received 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, November 11. Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, speaking Dewsbury, declared that every indu trial country, protected or unprotecte its wage-earners to fig] through trade unions to maintain thei selves against the encroachments < capital. 'Until the British elccto iaced the problem of international r lationships we should have no peac prosperity or .honour. If they did n< see to it that 1 peace were maintaine ■ in Europe our .sons would be called o -to fight in another war. He intende ■to keep The peace of Europe at tl forefront of the Labour programme. The Archbishop of Canterbury preaching at St. PouPs Cathedral, sai that when we tried to remember wha ve aimed at, fought, wrought an «ared for in the Great War which w .. Ibelieved had ended in 1918, we foun *quiet rccillectiveness strangely diflG cult and there was danger of sheer pes jjsimism. As we looked around we stooi aghast at the European confusion an< were bewildered by the malignan spectre of unemployment darkeninj the home sky. Darkness had fallen fo a. time on many bright hopes conceive* "in war time, but even that darknes held a gleam of good. It pressed homi upon the world the accursedness o: war. Ho appealed tc everyone ti 'question himself what he was doinf in the ordinary intercourse of life t( "help the cause of peace and forgive ■ ness.—A. and N.Z. QUIETLY IMPRESSIVE. UNITED STATES CEREMONIES. (Received 12.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 11. Simple and . impressive ceremonies marked America's observance of Armistice Day. Special services were held in the churches throughout the country, whither marched survivors of the war in funeral processions through hushed . streets lined with reverent spectators. President Coolidge, at Washington, when placing a floral tribute on the tomb of Ihe Unknown Soldier said: """This day, should mean permanent peace.''—A. and N.Z. TWO MINUTES' SILENCE. . WELLINGTON OBSERVANCE. WELLINGTON, This Day. Armistice Day. passed quietly in Wellington. The weather was fine. There was no special observance publicly, but most of the churches made appropriate reference to the day at the morning services, the congregations asBembling earlier than usual in order to observe two minutes' solemn silence before 11 o'clock struck. At St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral the Gov-. , ernor-General and Cabinet Ministers were present, Lord Jellicoe reading the lessons. He took a similar part in the -evening service at St. Mark's. WANGANUI WAR MEMORIAL. UNVEILING OCCASION. WANGANUI, This Day. At all the churches two minutes' silence was observed yesterday morning in memory of the Great War's dead. In the afternoon Colonel Melville unveiled the War Memorial. The service was of a religious nature, rcpresenta tive clergymen taking part. SOUTHERN TOKENS. CANTERBURY PROA'INCE. CHRISTCHT-RCH, This Day. v Armistice Day was fittingly observed in the city and throughout the prov'ince by religious services at 11 a.m. 'The Cathedral was crowded to oversowing. Hundreds of people standing outside observed two minutes' silence. DUXEDIN TRIBUTE. DUNEDIN, This Day. The fifth anniversary of the ending of the Great War by armistice was observed at practically all the city and suburban churches yesterday.—Press Assn.